ALMOST shark attack!

It was last summer when my family and I were vacationing at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. My cousin and I (my cousin was only 10 at the time.) were just swimming and messing around in the ocean when all of a sudden we saw all of these people along the beach looking down in the water. My mom was trying to stay calm when she told us to get out of the water. I knew something was up, but she didn't want to scare us. All of a sudden people were screaming SHARK! So, my cousin practically jumped on my back because she was scared, even though I was too, and we tried to run in the water to get back to shore. When we finally got back to shore we were freaking out! We knew there was a shark and we could see it. Everyone was standing at the edge of the water looking at it. People everywhere were surrounding this shark and you could just see the fins go up and down in the water. The shark wasn't a huge one but it wasn't a baby one either, it was just the right size that it could hurt you. So, my mom went up and asked the life guard how it got so close to shore and he said that it somehow got over the sandbar and was stuck on the other side (closer to the beach). So now that I was freaking out, I didn't go into the ocean for the rest of the day!

-----> picture of everyone looking at the shark!

-Melissa Bushur